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The reverse shows a design of Faith, at whose feet are
the cardinalitial hat and kingly crown, and who turns from
the Lion to the Cross; with the legend:
NOT BY THE DESIRES OF MEN BUT BY THE WlLL OF GOD.
At the same time was struck a touch-piece, for dis-
tribution among the few loyal English who had not bowed
the knee to Hanoverian Baal, and for curing those afflicted
with struma or king's evil; an occult power which died
with this last Stewart. The obverse bears a design of a
frigate with the legend:
HENRY THE NINTH, OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, KING,
BY THE GRACE OF GOD, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, CARDINAL-
BISHOP OF TUSCULUM.
The reverse shows St. Michael Archangel overcoming the
Dragon, with the legend:
To GOD ALONE BE GLORY.
And that was all,—an enduring record, carven in peren-
nial bronze, that the King's Majesty had come to the
inheritance of his ancestors. He believed in his Divine
Right, the right implied in his existence, his existence by
the Sanction of Him by Whom kings do reign; and he
simply affirmed his Right, waiting for his people to recog-
nize him as their lawful sovereign, to do their part as he
had done his. Could anything be more superbly, more con-
temptuously kingly than {his distinction of the parts of
sovereign and subject? Cardinal-King Henry IX was
happy in his lot, for he had a goodly heritage,—in the Holy
Roman Church. Had His Majesty desired, the Supreme
Pontiff could have released him from his ecclesiastical
estate and obligations by a stroke of the pontifical pen, to
enable him to prosecute his indubitable right. But he did
not so desire. He had chosen the better part—peace—and